iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wrote a thing on why we should have interactive lists on the web: sarahmhigley.com/writing/inte... If anyone has their own interactive list use cases that aren't covered, send them to me! I'm putting together an ARIA spec PR this month.

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The web needs interactive lists | Sarah Higley

A plea to developers: if this gets created, let's not fuck it up. This is a slightly more spec-heavy post than usual, but hopefully still useful.

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This article builds off of this comic with data visualization, research, and journalism—that’s right the real stories of people behind the infrastructure. 🤓

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Sean Lynch @techniq.dev · 08/10/2026

📊 LayerChart: a new dimension New in v2.6.0, `view={isometric}` can be passed to any Chart to add a tilted perspective to your Svg, Canvas, and Html layers. Going further, use the `z` accessor to add (faux) 3D depth rendering for most marks.

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Marcos F. Lobo @marcosflobo.com · 08/10/2026

Back to basics always work, more over in times of AI generating our code newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/symptoms-o...

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Symptoms of Bad Software Design

4 signals that your software is badly designed and how to solve them

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 07/10/2026

Want to know what Optogenetics is and why it won the Nobel Prize this week? Read this comic I made!

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part two of the version with ALT text. Apologies of missing it in the original!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/10/2026

Baffling how bad startup tech blogs are getting: more of them are AI nonsense. I know because every now and then a marketer emails me, hoping to get coverage. More of then not it's overly verbose, impossible to follow... AI slop. Feels like no one wants to put in the work

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TANSTACK @tanstack.com · 05/10/2026

TanStack Charts 1.0 is here 🎉 Small bundles, fast updates, and charts you don’t have to outgrow. Start with a line and see where it takes you, or just simply tell your agent to "use Tanstack Charts"! tanstack.com/charts

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Anthony Fu @antfu.me · 05/10/2026

👀 Introduce pulls.review Categorize changes in Pull Requests into logical groups, with a summary. Helps you do reviews more efficiently by focusing on what matters. Everything runs in your browser. With opt-in GitHub userscript, GitHub Actions, or CLI for local git changes!

pulls.review

A better way to review a GitHub pull request’s diff: grouped, summarized, and fast.

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Sam @samkapila.com · 05/10/2026

What is time? Somehow Inclusive Design Communities is 4 years old. A book I wrote for a more inclusive design and tech industry (including higher education) is still relevant and still available in paperback and ebook across many countries! Happy birthday, IDC! samkapila.com/books/

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Inclusive Design Communities, the book » Sameera Kapila

Sameera Kapila is a product design leader, a speaker, and the author of Inclusive Design Communities.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. - Version with ALT text! Thank you @virginiaopossum.bsky.social for the help!

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 29/09/2026

saw this on a walk and I think more of y'all should see it

y'all want everything... but nothing if it takes time

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/09/2026

Very much enjoying this “GPU glossary” mini-book by Modal I got from Can Duruk when stopping by at Modal’s NYC office. I don’t know if the physical books can be purchased, but the book has an online version, as I learned; with the same contents: modal.com/gpu-glossary

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@github.com Yo, speaking for the internet here. Can you please keep wrap as default?? I realize this is why I just resolve conflicts locally BUT it should be so easy here in this case.

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Sean Lynch @techniq.dev · 15/09/2026

🎉 Introducing npmchart.com Analyze npm packages (downloads, releases), Github activity (releases, stars, commits, issues, PRs), compare packages, user pages, download or copy any charts, and more!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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daniel r(ooooooh) 👻 @danielroe.dev · 23/09/2026

1️⃣ the best authors of libraries have 'felt the pain' and are making it better 2️⃣ the 'curse of knowledge' means authors (can) become less insightful over time 3️⃣ a lack of domain expertise IS something you have to offer ... so, contribute to address a pain you have 🙏 roe.dev/ama #ama

i use a oss libs all the time for work and personal projects. i’ve always wanted to contribute to these tools to understand them better, and along the way also maybe prove to myself i’m not an impostor lol

all advice tends towards “contribute to address a pain you have” but this is really tough for me since I am of the belief that the authors know best. they’re the domain experts. why should i go against their design. you know? this predisposition i feel restricts me from being able to confidently contribute to tools.

do you think there still is a place for me somewhere? is this long? i really hope not oops. Text on a grainy yellow-to-fuchsia-to-blue gradient.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monet's water lily garden in Giverny is an ever-renewing source of inspiration for me. In this painting, I wanted to capture the feeling of water lilies floating on a still pond, filled with reflections of the clouds. Lilies in the Clouds by Erin Hanson, 2026 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 in @bsky.art

Monet's water lily garden in Giverny is an ever-changing and ever-renewing source of inspiration for me. In this painting, I wanted to capture the feeling of water lilies floating on the surface of a still pond, filled with reflections of the clouds. I applied thick brushstrokes of oil paint laid side by side without layering to capture the sense of movement and texture in the scene.

Lilies in the Clouds
by Erin Hanson, 2026
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 in

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love it when we admit translation happens not just from product to customer but in so many different internal layers. 🍰

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the :/ in https://

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti @theletterf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing as a profession. They asked me a pretty good question: What skills would you prioritize in this age of constant change and uncertainty? Is it AI? Maybe coding? Well, not really. passo.uno/tech-needs-h...

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Tech needs humanists more than ever

Whoever speaks badly, thinks badly and lives badly. We must find the right words: words are important! —Nanni Moretti A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing...

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Dan Moore @mooreds.com · 03/09/2026

Man, writing really is thinking.

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Cassander @drsbaitso.zip · 21/08/2026

That first question is, BY FAR, the best-kept secret in IT/infrastructure. There's a whole goddamned website to help understand why you ask "What are you trying to do?", not "What do you (think you) need?". I wish I had more fingers so I could get an obnoxiously-long knuckle tattoo.

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Home - The XY Problem

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yo @zed.dev. Any chance you can show me what the conflict is here next time?? I hate not knowing which edits I'm losing.

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“The reassuring finding, across the research represented in the room at the CIFAR workshop, is that candidness about uncertainty generally maintains or builds trust rather than erodes it.” More proof that there’s much to gain when you stay intellectually honest and low-ego.

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For anyone deep in GitHub PR comments frustrated about losing track of them with the new experience, you can switch to the classic experience here:

Top right corner of GitHub PR Diff with Preview box selected and showing the button "Switch to the classic experience"

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 27/08/2026

At @cascadiajs.com this year I gave a talk about #atproto and the Atmosphere: the open social ecosystem Bluesky and many other apps are built on, and what it means to actually own your data. I made a bunch of silly drawings for it, and I'm sharing them in this 🧵!

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 28/08/2026

A little bit of an announcement! If you like writing, or the process of it, and how to come up with stories, please follow along with a new series I'm starting. The first interview is in the books, and I'm distilling it now into a blog, interview-style. www.ssp.sh/blog/writing...

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Writing really is an Emotional Rollercoaster

[[Writing]] has become my passion over time; I have built a whole company based on technical writing services (even though most say that’s impossible). After doing it for 11 years publicly (much longe...

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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 24/08/2026

GUESTBOOOOOOOK

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

For folks using Obsidian: Have you figured out more secure ways to use Obsidian plugins? Disappointed to hear/read about plugin security concerns here. We must have a solution in 2026?? blog.willchatham.com/2025/07/20/o... www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD...

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Obsidian.md and Plugin Security

Obsidian.md is an awesome note taking system. However, any third party plugin you install has access to all the files on your computer. You must hope the d...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026

I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 03/08/2026

You don't need someone else's permission to make something that wasn't there before

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Zed @zed.dev · 28/07/2026

New to Zed? @movraxrax.bsky.social hosts New User Office Hours Tuesday, August 11 at 12pm ET / 9am PT. Thirty minutes on Zoom: editor basics, agent setup, reviewing agent work. Come hang out and bring questions. luma.com/zed-ox7n

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Zed New User Office Hours · Zoom · Luma

Are you new to Zed? We'll walk you through the most essentials parts on how to get the most out of your favorite new editor. Here's what we'll cover: The…

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Ben Balter @ben.balter.com · 28/07/2026

Thanks to @overcommitted.dev for having me on to talk remote engineering culture, why a decision without a URL gets relitigated forever, why working loudly ≠ self-promotion, and why async is quietly an inclusion strategy. Full episode 🎧 overcommitted.dev/open-and-asy...

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Open and Async Work | Remote Engineering Culture with Ben Balter - Overcommitted | Software Engineering and Programming Insights - Episode 70

Learn how async-first communication transforms remote engineering culture and developer productivity. Ben Balter, open source governance expert, shares practical strategies for building transparent, d...

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Dan Moore @mooreds.com · 27/07/2026

A banger from @mikemcquaid.com "Many children delivering newspapers get a higher hourly rate [than Homebrew maintainers]." 🤣😭 mikemcquaid.com/open-source-...

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Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)

Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn’t money: it’s maintainer motivation.

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 27/07/2026

I’ve been working on an Exaclidraw fork for about a week that syncs your drawings to your Atmosphere account as well as uses Iroh for realtime encrypted end to end collaborative work. I feel like it’s at a stage where I can share it. Meet lexidraw.app!

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Lexidraw, an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you

Lexidraw is an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you. Share publicly with the Atmosphere or privately with iroh.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The world needs more bookish gargoyles and grotesques

A collage consisting of six photos of gargoyles and grotesques reading books, including one owl and one frog.

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wow, these results have me wondering if technical blogs will only get more human with a distinct voice and grounded in clear experience/point of view to boost trust signals going forward. writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti... Wonder if it helps to have a visible AI usage policy too.

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Report: How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts

98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI

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Ben Balter @ben.balter.com · 21/07/2026

Most companies didn't go remote — they digitized the office. Same meetings, same interruptions, now on Zoom. Open and Async is out today: the open-source way of working — in the open, in writing, async by default — turned into a playbook for your team. open-and-async.com

"Async is the operating system; remote is the hardware."

Open & Async
A new book by Ben Balter
The collaborative software development playbook for remote and distributed teams.

Now available.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 21/07/2026

wizard zines has its first translation! How Git Works (wizardzines.com/zines/git) is now available in Korean, translated by ByteFreaksStudio inf.run/XYiAR I do not know how to read Korean but it's very cool to see :)

the "combining diverged branches" from How Git Works, in Korean

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Jürgen Šuvalov @jyrkki.eu · 21/07/2026

Just updated my blog's Astro version and trying to figure out whether to use the fix Cassidy pointed out or fix the issues in-line. In any case, be aware.

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I just got to admit that I love @zed.dev's seamless switching between repos and branches. 😍 I had a whole confirmation workaround for all the repo switching I did but now I don't need it! For a single launch I can quickly update: - docs - marketing - app - email-templates - content-styleguide

Top left corner of Zed text editor showing my repo, base branch and topic branch name. Specifically shows docs repo, main branch, then topic branch name jmc/changelog with the rest of the branch name cut off.

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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 16/07/2026

My #atproto intro from @cascadiajs.com is posted!! Check it out for an entry-level overview to atproto, why it exists, and how to develop on it! And then share it with your friends! Who wants to see if we can get more views on it than @t3.gg 's talk? 😉

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jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

You can stop building GitHub for writers on the weekend now. I've been joking about this for a few years. But seriously, it looks like @joanwestenberg.com has a version with her writer's studio app Kerouac. I've seen versions of "GitHub for writers" before but this one looks the most promising.

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